A25291:333
The Marrow of Sacred Divinity
The marrow of sacred divinity drawn out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latin ... ; whereunto are annexed certain tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.The marrow of sacred divinity drawne out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latine ... ; whereunto are annexed certaine tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Overton, 1642
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
65. The Excellency of man was placed chiefly in this, that he bore the Image of God.
66. Three things are required to make an Image. 1. That it be like. 2. That it be express, and framed to imitate another thing as an exemplar, or copy. 3. That that likeness be either in its specifical nature, or most noble perfection.
66. Three things are required to make an Image. 1. That it be like. 2. That it be expresse, and framed to imitate another thing as an exemplar, or copy. 3. That that likenesse be either in its specifiall nature, or most noble perfection.
67. Hence it is, that in the inferior Creatures the Image of God is not properly found; but only a shadow, and footstep of it.
68. But in man the proper reason of an Image is found, yet not perfect, which is only in the Son of God. Col. 1. 15.